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Sunday, 4 November 2012

Cherry Pick this week is one of the most beautiful songs released this year. Labrinth is slowing it right down and pairing up with voice of the moment, Emeli Sande. I did wonder at first what exactly her 'beautiful' was but that's just the grammar Nazi in me missing the the 'apostrophe e' from the title. This tune is so good that it's made me forget that niggle entirely. Just gorgeous.

Upon reaching number one, fans asked Labrinth via social networking website Twitter about the spelling. He replied "Can I make something clear! this is twitter! Not an English GCSE haha I’ll spell as BADLY as I wish awritemayte!... Oh is this about #Beneath”YOUR”Beautiful I love how crazy this has sent people…. It was to annoy english teachers and grammar Nazis."

This is an excerpt taken from Wikipedia. Labrinth admits he did not use poetic license--however much we would like to believe he did. How did this mistake get past so many people? I fear for the future of the English speaking world... It does not take a "Grammar Nazi" to figure out this mistake. It takes a third grader. I couldn't figure out what the song meant at first. I was asking myself, "Deep beneath her beautiful WHAT?" Clarity is important. That's why we have rules in English.